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title: At length he drew nigh to North Wales, and left the isles of Anglese… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: At length he drew nigh to North Wales, and left the isles of Anglesey on his left hand, crossing over the fords by the foreland over at Holyhead, till he came into the wilderness of Wirral,[6] that is loved neither of God nor of man, and there he abode but a little time. Who acts: Sir, God. A senten
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 74

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At length he drew nigh to North Wales, and left the isles of Anglesey on his left hand, crossing over the fords by the foreland over at Holyhead, till he came into the wilderness of Wirral,\[6\] that is loved neither of God nor of man, and there he abode but a little time.

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**Who acts:** Sir, God · **What happens:** draw, leave, cross over, come, love, abide · **To what, where:** North Wales, length, isles, left hand, fords, 6

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This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:3:74
# text = At length he drew nigh to North Wales, and left the isles of Anglesey on his left hand, crossing over the fords by the foreland over at Holyhead, till he came into the wilderness of Wirral,[6] that is loved neither of God nor of man, and there he abode but a little time.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Anglesey	Anglesey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fords	ford	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	foreland	foreland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Holyhead	Holyhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Wirral	Wirral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	parataxis	_	_
47	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl:agent	_	_
50	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	52	cc	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	57	expl	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
58	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Sir |  | North Wales | length |  | nigh *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wales=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Sir *not said here* | the isles of Anglesey |  | Sir's left hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent isle=Theme on hand=Location |
| 3 | **cross over** | gerund | Sir *not said here* |  |  | the fords |  | by the foreland; at Holyhead | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over ford=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | Sir | 6 |  | the wilderness of Wirral |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **love** | present · passive | God nor man | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **abide** | past | Sir |  |  | there | time |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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